When you look back, you can see the chapters.
Then there’s a more conscious sense that a chapter is coming to an end. It doesn’t always end how you want to, but there is a sense in which that chapter has come to a close.
If it was a particularly tough time, then the end of that chapter is something worth looking forward to. Yet when that chapter was a beautiful, uplifting and captivating chapter and you realise it’s coming to an end … Oh the sadness, how the heart aches …
When you look back, though, you know a new chapter has to begin.
Whatever we’re told by the self-help gurus and personal development experts, we don’t have complete control over the new chapter. We don’t know everything there is to know about that chapter because we haven’t read it yet, because it’s not been written in our perspective as yet. All we can do is make the most of the new chapter with each and every passing letter, word, sentence, phrase, paragraph and page of that chapter.
Whenever we get stuck at a point, there is the knowledge that today will not be every day. Every day is not the same. Each new day comes with its own different letters and words constructed if we pay attention and remain in the present. Then we can celebrate or soberly acknowledge whatever thought emerges from it.
With that in mind, there’s every reason to remember the good and the bad from previous chapters, but still appreciate and rejoice in the new chapter in which we find ourselves. When you know the Author and know that the story is in good hands, you can trust that no rough sentence will ever overcome the beauty in the story as a whole.
When you look back you can see the chapters. Don’t forget, though that it’s from the old we travel to a new chapter.
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C. L. J. Dryden
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